Amangiri Photographer
Tai Lee Photography is a Utah photographer servicing Southern and Northern Utah couples photographing her clients using both film photography combined with digital photography to create beautiful, artistic imagery for those she photographs. She loves photographing couples in the west desert of Utah and in the variety of landscapes throughout the state, including the mountains, salt flats, sand dunes, waterfalls, and more. Whether it’s an elopement, micro-wedding, or an indoor wedding, Tai has experience with a variety of settings and people and is here to highlight the lives of her clients and tell their unique stories.
The Aman Resorts are one of the most incredible luxury resorts I have ever seen. I was fortunate to photograph a couple’s engagement session in Southern Utah at Amangiri this past year (linked below), and just recently discovered that there is another resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming called Amangani. It looks just as magical as Amangiri and also embraces its natural surroundings and integrates that into the resort seamlessly so you almost can’t tell where one stops and the other starts. I can’t imagine a more perfect setting to elope or get married. It would be an experience you would never forget.
Luxury Engagement Photo Session at Amangiri Resort in Canyon Point, Utah | Tai Lee Photography | Amangiri Utah Engagement Photographer. Imagine being so far away from everything that you only hear the still, quiet sound of nature. The sound of the breeze, the rustle of desert plants, the breath of the earth. The word Amangiri means ‘peaceful mountain’ and that is exactly how it felt to be there. Not only while exploring the steep cliffs, canyons, mesas, white slot canyons, and rock formations, but also while wandering through the Amangiri Resort, with its architecture and design that honors and complements the nature surrounding it. Instead of competing with nature, it became one with it and it truly does feel like you are in the wild west. Be sure to watch the video in the link to the Southern Utah Resort because it beautifully expresses how it feels to be there.
Samm and Caz celebrated an elopement in the red rock desert landscape of Moab last Fall. Moab is one of the most gorgeous Utah locations with epic scenery, plenty of opportunities for adventure, and also lots of spaces and nature settings that are intimate and romantic.
Wedding + Elopement Planning Guides
Top 5 Tips For A Stress Free Wedding Day | Salt Lake City, Utah Destination Wedding Photographer | Fine Art Photography
There are countless articles out there with tips on having a stress free wedding day. And if you’ve read any of them, you probably feel like you’re reading the same thing over and over again. I wanted to write this guide with 5 tips that will help you feel relaxed and calm on your wedding day that will ALSO create rich, meaningful experiences and memories to look back on. This guide will include 5 simple things that you haven’t already come across in all your reading. You can do all 5, or you can just choose 1 or 2. Either way, it is guaranteed to help you stay calm on your wedding day or in the week leading up to it. The other really cool thing about these tips is that they make for really beautiful photographic moments, etching your memories even deeper and allowing you to relive them each time you look back through your photos. These ideas will help to become grounded and to re-center so that you can really approach your wedding day with intention and presence.
Candid, natural, thoughtfully composed imagery of engaged couples and couples on their wedding day, photographed on 35 mm format camera using black and white film, portra 400, and using light leak techniques to give photos a beautiful wash of color, with a painterly effect.
The Aman Resorts are one of the most incredible luxury resorts I have ever seen. I was fortunate to photograph a couple’s engagement session in Southern Utah at Amangiri this past year (linked below), and just recently discovered that there is another resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming called Amangani. It looks just as magical as Amangiri and also embraces its natural surroundings and integrates that into the resort seamlessly so you almost can’t tell where one stops and the other starts. I can’t imagine a more perfect setting to elope or get married. It would be an experience you would never forget.
So I had an idea a while back that it would be nice to get wedding advice, planning tips, and suggestions from the people that had been there before. There are a TON of articles on wedding blogs and links to articles on Pinterest and some of them are really helpful, but a lot of them are also just trendy topics. They don’t look at tradition and evaluate it. So I took a few questions to my facebook and instagram audience to get their wisdom and advice on the whole wedding experience from what they regret, to what they were glad they did. These tips for making your wedding planning easier are little nuggets of gold and it’s worth reading every single one. Take a screen shot if you need!
So if you’re considering eloping or having an outdoor wedding, I’m guessing one of the first thoughts that came to your mind was, what if it rains? And if it wasn’t on your mind, it was on your mom’s—rightfully so. What do you do when you’ve planned to have a beautiful elopement or small, outdoor ceremony and it’s supposed to be windy and rainy. I’ve got a couple of suggestions to help the situation to go as smooth as possible.
Common Misconceptions About Eloping
1 | You can't invite anyone
2 | It involves a trip to Vegas and an Elvis officiant
3 | It's all about the practicality of getting married, not any of the traditional wedding details
4 | It's only for those who can't afford a regular wedding
Want to know what I say to all of those? NOT TRUE NOT TRUE NOT TRUE. So many of the "rules" of a wedding day are just in our head. There is no wedding government to hold you accountable for not following ALL of the traditions (even though you might have an aunt that thinks that is her job).
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